Overview
Hy! My name is AJ and I’m a big fan of this game, but to be honest sometimes it can be really difficult to make some progress in it. Expecially in the Act 2, so I decided to make a text base walkthrough of it with a lot of pictures. I hope it will be useful for all of you. Enjoy! 🙂
Intro
Just a few thing before the actual walkthrough. I’ve just finished to play through the Act 2 a few hours ago (it just came out) and there are certaily a few secrets in it what I don’t know about as well as achievements which I haven’t figured out how to get yes. I will try to update this guide as soon as possible. The other thing, it’s a full walkthrough of Act 2, so it obviosly contains spoilers. [SPOILER ALERT!] If you want to explore the great word of DreadOut or want to solve the puzzles yourself, don’t read this guide. So everyone who’s still here, enjoy! 🙂
Just out of the school
Note: (If you choose this act in the menu instead of playing through the whole game again, then you have every collectabe item from Act 1 in your inventory.)
The Act 2 starts where the previous one ended, just outside of the school. So let’s start (continue) Linda’s journey! Let’s start walking until you reach the end of the stone path. If you take a look to the left, you will notice, that a part of the fence is missing. Go through there to get to the next area.
Up ahead is a closed gate next to stands and on the right there’s a bus. During you explore the area, a little creature appers followed by a lot. You can try to scare them away, but after a while there will be too many of them and they will start grab onto you.
As it turns out there little creatures are not murderers, but thieves. And they’ve just stole your phone and bag. You’re next mission is to get them back.
They open the gate and disapper in the distance. Go through the gate and continue going. After a right turn you will finally find your old friend Doni. Or maybe he isn’t that friendly as he was before?
As you try to interack with him (press E) he attacks you. It seems something is off about him and there’s only one thing you can do. Run! This part is quite easy. While you run he will get sou once or twice, but don’t worry. Just run until you find a house, go through it and open the double glass door on its other site.
Linda will close the door with an umbrella and pick up the other one. And you’ve just got a new weapon, an umbrella! (Seriusly I have no clue what to do with it.)
An other dark place
As Linda locks the door and grabs the umbrella, you get back control and have a chance to look around. And you recognize it’s just an other dark place. Turn left and start walking until you find a small house on your right with some light coming through its open door.
Go into the house and into its only room. There is scary looking figure on the wall. (Probably painted with blood.) It’s a good idea to make a picture about it, because it kind of helps to figure out a puzzle later on. There also a mysticle figure on the table, pick it up to make Linda’s abililies stronger.
Go back outside and continue your journey. After a few steps you will get to a little bit bigget place whit a house ahead. As you approach it Doni will attack you. (And Linda brokes the umbrella on his head! Guys don’t try to scare this girl, because at the end you will be the one who’s crying.)
After this little fight, you get into an interactive cutscreen. Linda runs into the house and her now evil friend follows her. All you have to do is get to the other side of the house and ultimately out of it. One of the little thief creatures appears too with Linda’s phone in its hand, but it gets away. (By the way, this is the most unstable house ever. Every single part of it falls apart.)
It doesn’t take too much time for Doni to get to us again. (He chooses the fast way, through the wall!) So after the cutscreen end it’s time to run again. Just go along the path, at about half way you will see rails on the ground, follow them and you will find a train.
Now get into the train and a cutscreen starts. It turns out that Doni is possessed by an evil ghost and he tries to kill Linda. After she gets away by crawing into the next wagon, the ghost killes Doni by braking his neck. Then it disappers. The debris buries the door and Linda falls to her knees as she suffers by the pain of losing one of her friends and seeing him die right in front of her.
Even tought in a sad moment like this, no one wants to hear it, but you have to keep moving. So slowly but surly let’s start walking out of the train. After a few steps Linda will fall down and apperently asleep.
She then waked up by a dead corp, but it seems to be just Linda’s imagination. But the corp is there and in front of it, you will find your new gadget, a camera. Pick it up and read the text what tells you that the camera has a zoom (mouse wheel) and flash function (F button).
In the meantime flashes can be seen from the next train wagon and as it turns out the little thief creatures using Linda’s phone. But now that you have a camera, you can finally get the phone and the bag back. So zoom in and make a picture about them, what will scare them away. But be careful a bigger one craws into the wagon and start’s slowly waking towards you. It takes quite a lot of photos to take it down so make the shots as fast as you can while moving back. If you was fast enough then it will disappear right before you touch the closed door with you back.
If your done dealing with it, you can finally get Linda’s stuff back. Pick them up and go out of the train wagon. While going out the door don’t forget to pick up the second mysticle item, the ring. It’s on a box on your left.
Go along the path, then you will see a small tunnel on you’re right. Go into it and thus proceed to the next area.
A beautiful oasis 1
After the loading screen you find yourself in a dark tunnel. Start moving along the valley, as you plocess it will get brighter and warmer. (It’s a good idea to look back. The sunrise is quite nice.)
As you get to the end of the valley you will see a quite interesting, but really beautiful oasis with a little lake in the middle of it. Nice girls everywhere, relaxing music and a giant, floating girl in the air.
The first big puzzle of Act 2 takes place right here. First get to the other side of the lake where the girls dancing and playing music. There is a statue behind them and three (now lot lighting) candles.
This puzzle is quite complex, here it is how it works. The three candles at the girls are indicators. Or goal is to lit them all. To do this we have to find the other three statues with candles and (lit them first in some cases) and extinguish them. If you played with the Demo of the game you know this game mechanic. To interact with a candle you have to make a picture about it. Both your phone and the camera is good for this task, but be careful not to be too far from the candle. You’re at a good distance if you phone’s or camera’s screen starts to distort. Ok, but then where are the statues and the candles? Do you remember that little house with the painting inside of it on its wall? I told you it will be important. That circle on the upper part of it is a map. The big circle is the whole oasis, the smaller inside is the lake or the stone in it. (The written “1” inside of it probably meand that it’s the first puzzle.) You see those 3 smaller circles connecting to the big one. The statues with the candles are in those. So let’s get moving. (But only after you enjoyed a bit of time.)
From the singing girls look at the stone in the middle of the lake and turn a little bit to the left. You will se a little path between the rocks. Go through there and you will get yourself in one of those small circles.
Here you can see a pile of rock in the middle. After investigating it a little bit, you will find a dagger pinned into it. Pull it out (press E) and you get your third mysticle item. In the same are you will find a statue (just like the one behind the girls) with a lit candle. Make a picuture about the candle and it will enxtinguish. (Pay attention to the screen distortion.)
You’re done here, so head back to the girls. As you can see one of the three candles are lit. It means you’re making progress. (If it isn’t double check whether you extinguished the previous candle or not.)
Now let’s go to the second candle. From the girls turn a little bit to the left and start going. You will find a small gap between the stone walls with a wierd looking winged gate in it. Proceed thro it to get to the next area.
Now you’re in an other small circle, but unlike the othet one there’re quite a lot of things here. The winged gate, an interesting looking statue of a man, a little bit damaged statue of a snake and of course the reason why you’re there the usual statue with a candle. This time and not lighting one.
To process through this part of the puzzle you have to lit the candle first to extinguish it. Do you remember that wall painting? Now it can help again. On the buttom of it on the left site there is a man with wings and a snake around it with it’s head above the men’s. He certainly suffering as he calls for help (on the painting “HELP!” is written around him) and the statues facial expression matches this theory. All you have to do is reproduce this picture. So find the perfect spot where all the element are at their right spot and thus they make this picture. If you got it right a picture will flash up indicating that you’re made it. (It’s worth noticing that the missing part of the snake are actually what are behind the man and thus not visible. Man these puzzles are good.)
After it the candle of the statue near you will lit. Make a picture about it and thus extinguish it. (Pay attention to the distance.) With all this, you’re done here. let’s get cack to the girls.
As you can see this time two of the candles are lit only one more to go. As you watch the girls turn to the left and you will see an other path between the stones covered with brushes.
The not so beautiful oasis
Near the brushes you can see our friend the black cat, but it doesn’t help you too much this time. Put show you the way, sadly the brushes block it, so you have to deal with them first. Use the flash of your new camera (press F) and the brushes will let you go through. Proceed further until fallen trees block your way. From there you can see a statue with a lit candle in the distance. Use the zoom function of your camera and take a picture of the candle.
After you take the picture and extinguish the candle the place will suddenly get dark and every nice thing is gone. Let’s go back to the statue now with all three candles lit.
Videos
Sadly I don’t have too much time and writing this guide would take a lot. Of course I will finish it, but I want to help you now. I wanted to make a speedrun of this game since it released and I was really interested in how long would it take to run through Act 2, so I made a test speedrun. It doesn’t really explain why you should do something, but it shows you what to do if you’re stuck. Sadly the game crashed in the hallway of the mansion (what makes it a segmented speedrun), but I could still manage to beat Act 2 in about 47 minutes with only a few mistakes and without dying. 🙂 Enjoy!